Texas Lt Gov Dan Patrick Will Cover Convicted Salon Owner’s Fine and Volunteers to Serve Her Time on House Arrest

We wrote earlier about how the Texas governor and AG spoke out about salon owner Shelley Luther who was convicted of opening her business under the state’s executive order.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick took it a step further in a tweet where he said that he would pay her $7k fine and that he would “volunteer to be placed under house arrest” to serve her sentence so she could “go to work and feed her kids.”

7 days in jail, no bail and a $7K fine is outrageous. No surprise Texans are responding. I’m covering the $7K fine she had to pay and I volunteer to be placed under House Arrest so she can go to work and feed her kids. #txlege#TexansHelpingTexans

7 days in jail, no bail and a $7K fine is outrageous. No surprise Texans are responding. I’m covering the $7K fine she had to pay and I volunteer to be placed under House Arrest so she can go to work and feed her kids. #txlege #TexansHelpingTexans https://t.co/gdtMLAHFV5

— Dan Patrick (@DanPatrick) May 6, 2020

In an interview last week, Luther said, “I’m not closing the store. If they arrest me, I have someone who will keep the store open, because it’s our right to keep the store open.”

Patrick said last month in a passionate interview that he was “not living in fear of COVID-19,” but that he’s living in fear “of what’s happening to this country.

He posed a question that “as a senior citizen are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren?” He said “if that’s the exchange,” he’s “all in.”